The resignation of Carlos Mazón As president of the Generalitat Valenciana he opens a political scenario of evident fragility in a community that is going through its worst crisis in decades.
One year and five days after the catastrophic dana that took the lives of 229 people, Valencia needs institutional stability, effective political leadership and, above all, coherence on the part of those who claim to represent the general interest.
The question that arises now is whether Vox will live up to its own statements or, once again, put electoral calculations before State responsibility.
Santiago Abascal He appeared this Monday in Plasencia with a speech that was already common in his party: Pedro Sanchez is the only one to blame for the tragedy, the PP gives “a scapegoat” to the Government with the resignation of Mazón, and Vox will not move until the popular ones “come clear.”
But your own words hold the key to what your decision should be.
If, as he claims, Sánchez and his Government are truly responsible for the damage for denying international aid and blocking hydraulic infrastructure, the most basic logic demands that Vox facilitate the investiture of a new president of the PP as soon as possible. that can confront this government negligence and the subsequent reconstruction of the affected areas.
Parliamentary arithmetic is relentless. The PP has forty deputies in Les Corts and Vox, thirteen. Without the support of Abascal’s party, Valencia will rush towards early elections that no one, except perhaps Sánchez himself, wants at this moment.
The alternative is not acceptable. That Mazón remains five more months as acting president, with the autonomous government blocked, if an investiture agreement is not reached within the legal period.
Both scenarios are simply unacceptable for a community that needs effective leadership, budgets for reconstruction, and a solid institutional response to the magnitude of the tragedy.
Vox has built its political identity on fierce criticism of the “tacticism” of the PSOE and the alleged cowardice of the PP. He has denounced the “climate terrorism” of European green policies and has directly blamed Teresa Ribera and the Sánchez Government to multiply the devastating effects of the dana.
If all of this is true, and Vox truly believes it, its moral obligation is to facilitate an alternative government in Valencia that can reverse these policies and demand from the central State the help that, according to Abascal, it has skimped on.
To block the investiture of a PP president now would be to implicitly recognize that his speech is pure electoral rhetoric, empty of content and devoid of real commitment to the Valencians.
The argument put forward by Abascal that he will wait for the PP to “clarify itself” about its candidate is a smokescreen. The relevant thing is not who Mazón’s successor is (there is talk of Perez Llorcabut also Catalan o Mompo), but that there is a fully operational government as soon as possible.
Vox boasts of defending “ideas, not people.” Well, if these ideas involve combating the policies of the Sánchez Government, supporting the victims of the dana and guaranteeing the reconstruction of Valencia, the only coherent position is to vote in favor of the candidate proposed by the PP.
Any other decision would reveal that, for Vox, political opportunism outweighs institutional responsibility.
Furthermore, the situation is too serious to allow itself the luxury of tactical games. The victims of the dana deserve a government that works day and night on reconstruction, not five more months of interim or an electoral campaign that would paralyze all effective management.
The rule of law itself requires that the parties act with high vision when circumstances demand it.
The PP has, of course, the obligation to propose a solvent candidate, capable of recovering the trust lost after the crisis generated by Mazón. But Vox has, if possible, an even greater responsibility: to demonstrate that its proclamations are not just inflammatory rhetoric to galvanize its electorate, but a real commitment to political management.
Facilitating the investiture of a new president is not making “the PP troupe”, as the minister suggested Oscar Puentebut to exercise the responsibility that comes with having thirteen deputies in Les Corts.